Prison Break Overnighter

So I spent yesterday from around 4pm till this morning's 8.30am watching Prison Break on DVD!

I watched up till the latest Season 2 episode, the one where Kellerman/Kravecki shoots Mahone and helps the brothers.

I have to say though, if not for me being a sucker for mystery, the show has many many problems. Factual errors, In-Story Factual errors, Continuity errors.

One factual error is that from looking at Fox River, it IS NOT a Max Security Prison. Why? Go find out. Furthermore, there is absolutely no way security is that lax. Max Security Prison personnel never ever slack because their life depends on it and they are trained as such. In-Story Factual errors also appeared because some of the plots just didn't gel. You need to watch it to understand. The most obvious is continuity errors. Guns pointed point blank at heads suddenly appear far away in different camera angles, items in opposite hands, etc.

Still.. I can't wait for more.. lol

I enjoy intelligent conspiracy shows because it alerts people to the possiblity that this is happening. Politics is a dirty game. Politics across all forms(Democracy, Communism, etc) always has dirt. People should be aware that some of these guys are pretty good at disguising themselves.

PICA press conference

Waiting for PY to give me the rest of the pics would give me enough time to grow a beard. So I'll just go ahead with this post using the pictures I have.

Only interested in the client. :(

It's a bit annoying that I got so stressed up to deliver a good speech and got next to no airtime. No check that, it's immensely frustrating. Daryl pushed me into making doing it even though he knew full well that I didn't want to (I even told him flat out no) but you know ole Daryl Lim, always needs to get his way.

Su Ling interviewing Daryl

I shall say no more about this in this long overdue "Draft Post" because I feel it best to bottle up my feelings.... and save them for your family one day.

Wei Li and Gary. (Khian Ping is camera shy)

In any case, it wasn't really a press conference and was more like a launch. It was, quite frankly, a waste of time because the exposure was next to none. If there's a next one, I'll be skipping it. Let the rest of the team members stress themselves up.

Anyway, here is a link to the video of the launch aired on the Chinese News.

The Radio Interview Part 2

Khian Ping, Li Ling and mua.

Gary, Wei Li and Khian Ping

Su Ling, Gary and Wei Li

Gary, Wei Li, Khian Ping, Phui Yung and Li Ling

Nothing much to say here. It's all in the previous post. Except for the fact that I think Su Ling's cute. heh. Although for some reason, her eyes are always half shut whe she's in a photo.

As mentioned in the previous post, I don't think my voice will be inside because the recording stopped and she only has that small part of my voice(see previous post) which is like worthless even though my voice is damn nice. ;p

Podcast Part 1
Podcast Part 2

The Radio Interview Part 1

Headed down to mediacorp for a radio interview for PICA(The board game project we created during FYP). Phui Yung's supervisor was in charge of the thing so she scheduled this (She's interned at MediaCorp).

Took a taxi cuz I was late and ended up tumpang-ing Weili and Gary who I saw on the side of the road.

Me, Wei Li, Gary

Camwhore!

Entered the MediaCorp gates a.l.a "The Sum Of All Fears" and headed down to RSI. We passed by the live 93.8 studio which was basically made of glass. This made me want to see the 987 studio where Muttons In The Morning was on especially after they pulled that stunt about having Beckham on the line. Neh neh la! lol

Tap N Go (or something)

We headed deep underground and entered the studio. It felt like a bunker and my ears began to ring from the sheer quiet.

♪ Nobody said it was easy... ♪

We were interviewed by this University Intern named Su Ling.

It was all in Mandarin so I was like "huh? yea. erm.. yea".

I only said a "Hi. My name is... and I do the..." and a "What I learnt was..." in English.

The thing is, I believe the rear part of the interview was not recorded. Particularly because the timecode had stopped and because Su Ling looked a bit shocked when at the end of the interview, she went to "stop" the recording.

So that meant that the only recording of my voice was the "Hi. My name is... and I do the...".

The last I heard, my voice was totally removed and Su Ling introduced me herself.

Apparently the only cafeteria at Mediacorp

Will update with broadcast timing or podcast link once I get more info.

PHP Developers

Headed out to Brewerks for the PHP User Group meeting and as usual it was raining cats and dogs.

Starting to flood

Only 3 of us were there excluding a non-participant. I guess it was because of the rain.

An Indian national came down. He didn't know what PHP was and didn't seem interested in learning about PHP. Fulfilling the stereotype, he came only to sell his product and his services. He pointed the organiser to visit many websites on his laptop which was connected to the net and then proceeded to ask us if we were able to crack proprietary embedded software so that he could sell it, on behalf of us of course... repeatedly.

The 3rd guy, a business man familiar with the local software scene but not any good at programming came down about half an hour after the Indian national left apparently had to leave to go cook food for his roommates.

I'm becoming a cam whore.

This 3rd guy was really knowledgeable about handling an idea and with the organiser's practical experience in the field, the stage was set. There are loads of interesting things that we are hoping to start in the local PHP community.

From those few hours I learnt quite a few interesting things from the organiser(although in brief). I was going to implement them in FishingKaki the next day but my school (Singapore Poly) had other plans for my schedule so that unfortunately will come later.

Some of the things that we discussed included how PHP developers were in short supply. This actually shocked me because I thought that there would be a healthy supply of them. Now I'm trying to teach Sam some PHP but he doesn't seem interested. I also invited Chen Shan to join this user group and we'll see where this goes.

Beauty of the midnight train

Left the place very close to midnight and managed to take one of the last few trains.

New Template

I have redone the template so that I can use the new blogger beta widget system.

If you notice any problems, let me noe at fusionstream@gmail.com.

I may be doing another template change(changing the actual look and feel) soon too. We'll see how it goes. Extremely busy with fishingkaki. Can't even maintain my other sites.

New Year's Countdown 2006

Went out with the guys to catch the fireworks and participate in the countdown. Didnt go to Vivocity because the tickets were sold out by the time we wanted to get them and also because we had to pay which sorta turned us off.

Your Truly

Simon, a person Roy had met while playing Dota online and who also turned out to be jinghao's friend, was with us too.

Roy and Simon

Weili

Weili said while walking down the escalator someone suddenly came and stood in front of him and stared at him and then proceeded to ask his friend if he was Cuteworm. lol.

Hao

Ended up going to eat at MOS at Plaza Singapura and then walked over to Cineleisure to check out what free gifts we could get from the countdown happening there.

One too many Party Poppers

Saw that the gifts were nothing so we took a bus down to the National Museum to go for that countdown instead.

We were early and after looking around, we decided to go play pool at Paradiz but the tables there were full. So we decided to go play at nearby LAN shop.

The Lan Shop with No Aircon

At about 11.45pm we hurriedly pulled ourselves away from the LAN shop to try and head back to the Museum for the countdown. We reached about 5 minutes early and stood by the side of the stage while some people began to dance.

Might actually try out the dancing at these things one of these days. For now, I just like the drinks. haha

Fireworks

Fireworks

Sound: Baloons popping


After the fireworks were done we headed out of the Museum to see if we could catch the fireworks at the Esplanade.

The fireworks at the Esplanade started just as we exited the museum so we watched it from there.

Fireworks over Esplanade

Fireworks over Esplanade

The guys are pretty docile... No shouting the countdown.. No handshakes.. quite sian acherly.. lol

I think we need some girls in our group to make it more lively and what not.

After catching the fireworks, we headed down to City Hall MRT to decide where to go. The guys wanted to go to KBOX but Simon wanted to go home so he left and we headed to Marina Square.

Exodus

Masses

It was fucking crowded along the streets as everybody was trying to get home on the MRT which was about to close in 45 minutes. I swear, if Singapore ever had to perform a mass evacuation, we'd be seriously screwed.

In fact, I saw volunteers "ushers" quarelling with the pedestrians.

Meet China

Hordes of people

We Walk Alone

There is only one day in the year where you can walk against the flow of traffic on the main road.

Evacuation

KBox was also crowded so we located a 7-11 in the building that was "bounced" by 2 bangla temp employees and bot some drinks and sat at the foyer, waiting for the jam to subside so we could take a bus to Weili's house.

Litter was strewn everywhere including the secluded areas which were notw devoid of people which eerily reminded me of "28 Days Later".


The bus service that night was seriously fucked up. Before the jam subsided, the entire bus lane was filled with buses - with duplicate services - but once the jam started to subside, the buses were few and far in between.

The best part was, while there was still a jam and even after it had subsided, WL's bus still had not come. About 1.5hrs had past before we saw roy's bus coming and we decided to go to his house instead.

Once we had boarded the bus, I saw my own service coming up behind. Faced with the prospect of a long train ride home the next morning (Roy lived much further away from me than WL), I alighted at the next bus stop and boarded my service home.

Christmas Day (Boxing Day +4)

Went to Auntie Margie's House on Saturday for a Seet Family Gathering and also so I could fix her network.

Didn't do much except to watch some movies and one of the movies turned out to have some nudity. Luckily, the kids were busy playing with their toys.

Table Spread

Managed to set up their network pretty fast. Was quite easy really.

Sakae Sushi (I love sushi)

Aunty Sarene bought me and my siblings some presents this year. Some cool stuff...

Present from Aunty Sarene

The contents of the box

Things change...

This is a post that has been in draft mode since 7/6/05.

Sometimes i wonder what has been going on with my old friends. You know? The guys and gals from primary school, the exchange students, the foreign students, etc...

Teo Jia Yun
She was my first real crush. She was "relatively (primary school)" mature and quite cute. Her smile would brighten up anyone's day. Even after she had braces put on, her smile was still beautiful. Never got the guts to ask her out (Probably would've been to the playground or something. We both live(d) in Simei. haha). Guys, if your parents ever tell you to not get a girlfriend and focus on your studies first, screw that. It's easier to try and then make mistakes when you're younger.

Farhan Ibrahim
Farhan was a good friend in kindergarten but we kinda didn't talk much once we were in primary 3 because we were in different classes. When we did talk it was like we were old friends. He always used to get me birthday presents and I always forgot to get any for him.

Tupaz Shaun Antonio
A good friend back in the day up till we graduated primary school and he stopped going to catechism class (Sunday School). Used to belanja me erasers, fishballs and other small trinkets that kids like. Mixed up kid who was coping relatively well with his family issues. He eventually started hanging out with the wrong crowd and dropped to EM3 and started 'bad habits'. Sent him an sms once while I was in Secondary 2 and got back the reply that he was in a "different church". Haven't heard from him since. He was/is a good kid.

Shafeeq
Shafeeq was a dude whose voice never fully broke and who walked funny but was brilliant and somewhat cheeky. I remember the conversation that we had about how "Primary 5 is the time when the girls start to grow". lol. Good times. He also created his first simple C program in primary 5. I never really appreciated it's creation till I started C programming 2 years later.

Fazli
Fazli was a good friend in the early years but we grew apart because we were in different classes. A good kid with leadership potential. There was once where he over stood his boundaries though and I had to put him in line. He learnt from that and I had great respect for him for that.

He was also a good player at the childish game (not childhood game.. muahahaha) of "Police and Thief, Guns Style". Well there was actually no name for the game so I just came up with one. It's where we separate into two teams, police or thief - didn't really matter, and we would then fold paper bullets and propel them to our opposing team with ordinary rubber bands. It's sort of like a catapult but in a catapult, you put the bullet in the "holder" and fire whereas in this game, you "hang" the "bullet" on the rubber band, pull back, and fire.

Good techniques for this game include using good quality paper or 'drawing block' to make the bullets and using two (red) rubber bands or a short industrial (yellow) rubber band.

Good times. FYI, getting hit in the nipple is not a good feeling.

He also lives(/d) in Simei.

Sulaiman
Was the first guy I met in primary school where we had a test on day one. I remember asking him what is air(pronounced ehr) in my Malay test and then he told me it was not air as in atmosphere but air(pronounced aeeyier) as in the Malay word for water.

Was also the first guy to be kicked out of the Gymnastics ECA(Extra Curricular Activity) due to "size".

Muzafar (possibly wrong spelling)
Good guy who was friendly and always slung a shoe bag filled with his books and stuff over his shoulder. I still do the same now and again following his style. Also lives(/d) in Simei.

Rudy Hendra Saleh
Short and smart kid with bug teeth. Good kid and was not socially stupid despite his looks. Was the first guy to write in my "diary", which is stowed away and not in use btw, where he wrote a poem which I didn't understand due to the advanced use of English where conjunctions had been left out. He called me "a pig left behind". Bastard.. haha

Pei Zhen
A distant friend since Kindergarten, she was a nice person.

I wasn't excellent at gymnastics (because I didn't really enjoy doing it as a performance - although doing those tricks was cool) but I had good PR so to speak and I could get by so I usually ended up doing the annual performances (Prize Giving Day and etc). Teachers usually liked me. I don't know why. Well, anyway, one day, while training for an event, I cut my foot on a rusty lid covering a microphone point on the stage. I told my teacher about it and he just told me to go sit it out.

Pei Zhen on the other hand came over to have a look and asked me if I was alright. It's silly and if you look at the previous paragraph, long winded as well, but I felt really happy at that point that someone actually cared.

Alex and Joe
Joe was a loud mouthed Chinese idiot who was a jerk not because he was a jerk but because he was wild. I remember one time I was playing soccer with him and he kept on pushing me to get the ball(was a tennis ball) till finally I just shouted "CEBAI!". It felt good. haha

Then there was Alex. Alex was a foreign kid from God knows where, possibly Germany or Sweden due to his accent who, when in primary 1, was an extremely shy kid. I knew him through gymnastics. But when I got into the same class as him in Primary 5, he had transformed into another Joe. A clone with the same loud-mouth brash attitude.

They were still kids though so attitudes like this were kinda cool even though they were simultaneously annoying.

Ridwan
Ridwan was a good friend with quite a fair bit of wit and creativity. He however was not a follower but a leader and sometimes we clashed. Last I saw of him, he was out with the wrong crowd and smoking. I saw his brother once and mistook him for him(rephrase that in your own mind) and spent about 5 minutes lecturing the poor boy about the good ole times. Ridwan was short you see.

Was also great at manipulating people but didn't use it on his friends... much. Whether he uses it now i have no idea.

He also cracked up whenever I said the self-made word of Shittish.

Sufree (possibly wrong spelling)
Sufree was a short kid who was very easy going and consequently prone to teasing. Good kid. Saw him once out of the bus I was in while I was in Secondary School. We recognised each other and waved hellos. Haven't seen him since.

Nasir (possibly wrong spelling)
Good kid who was always trying to look cool and lives in the same block as me. Extremely short and funny and had a good throw/hook. I saw him a few times and his voice had broke tremendously. These days, if we see each other, we just smile and continue walking on because I guess we have nothing to talk about.

Khidir
Good kid who also short but less tolerable to teasing that Sufree. Extremely pliable to external influences. Even walks like his sister with toes pointed inwards.

Shobana
I remember her because I used to rhyme her name with banana. Good kid who, like me, was fond of making fun of our music teacher's name, Mrs Thong. Not making fun of the meaning of the word(we didn't know what it meant), but rather with the pronunciation. Mrs Thong insisted we pronounce her name with the correct intonation. Had some good times with that stuff.

Also was in my first play with me where I had to wear a skirt-like item of clothing like a tube top and pretend to be the "fox" in the play. Fuck shit. I hated plays ever since. I was actually the narrator and was quite happy with it till the "fox" guy came late one day and I had to read his lines. Fuck shitty day. I still hate plays till this fucking day. It's too bad really. Had I not been humiliated like that I might have liked that shit. I remember asking my mother to take me out but she refused. I still hate her for that. After that play she wanted to enrol me in another one but I gave her a firm no and nearly threw a fit so she changed her mind. Smart woman.

This is also why I hate wearing costumes. Bad memories. Fuck.

Megana (possibly wrong spelling)
Barring her odd sounding name which didn't seem so odd when younger, this kid was an intellectual. Was also one of those who introduced me to a few Animorph books. Her home phone number is also nearly identical to mine with only one number being different.



The following names I wrote in this article at the start but I have since forgotten who they are. I remember their names.. just not their faces.
-Sufiyan
-Sufli (I think is my brother's friend)

I still have many of their neoprints. Most of the guys here also used to be Tamiya(mini-4wd cars that run on a track) buddies. They have since stopped this hobby I believe. Too bad that I have since advanced way beyond them although I can't really compete in competitions because my cars are built for speed and not for stability. They are really fast.

Cherish your youth. Being an adult is fun. But so is being a kid.

Cheers and Happy New Year.

Christmas 2006 (Boxing Day + 1)

Nothing much just that my mom's side came over. Yummy pasta and Lasagna.

Godma and Nanny

Tried to play CS with Bell and Tim but dad's laptop kept on restarting. For some reason Bell, Godpa and Auntie Sally had to leave early again. So "bo on".

Played GinRummy with the remaining people after that and I wasn't doing too well. Esp in the last two games where Uncle Kevin and Uncle Narin proposed sling-only and 5-card-passport and they were supremely lucky and won faster than the games without these rules.

Samanatha made this edible item

I'm also finally making headway with the fragnetics server logs.

Christmas 2006 (Day)

Today, oddly enough, was a boring day. There wasn't even anything good on TV. wtf?!

Apparently, I couldn't wake up so the rest of the family ended up visiting Grandpa & Grandma without me. Nin nao peh... zzz

Also didn't see Auntie Marjorie or Auntie Janet these time round... Skipped their pre-Christmas gathering and ended up not seeing them during Christmas either since I missed Grandpa's house.

Also skipped Godma's house in the evening cuz was feeling quite tired.

Oh well, my mom's side is coming over to my house and on Saturday we're headed over to Auntie Marjorie's house.


Anywayz, some of my musings on the Christmas season. I hate it when people use "XMas" instead of Christmas. It was invented by some fuckwits who decided that "Christ" had a religious tone to it and decided to popularise the offending "XMas" word.

I only have this to say. "DUH! IT IS A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY!".

I also would like to add: "Fuck you". It's our fucking holiday and our religion. The fuck is up with stealing it and making it your own? Go fuck yourself preferably with a retractable baton up the one and only hole that you have.

Commercial assholes.

Christmas is when CHRIST was born. We celebrate the day for HIM. Hence CHRISTmas.

Who, by the way, is "X"? X-Men perhaps?! Sod off.

You don't see us saying Selamat Hari X or Happy XVali now do you? Or perhaps X New year. Arsewipes..

Christmas 2006 (Early Morning)

As tradition my mom's (formerly) immediate family spent Christmas eve at either Nanny's, Godpa's, Godma's, Auntie Karen's house or our own. This year, it was Godpa's.

View from Godpa's

To see a similar view using a non-handphone camera from 3 years back, click here. It's the picture at the end of the post.

Food. (Tasty Sheperd's pie at top right)

Turns out that Isabella, my cousin with whom I do not meet regularly cuz she stays so far away, did most of the cooking. Auntie Sally made the stuff crabbed shell which was nice. Didn't try the ribs though cuz very leceh if it got stuck in my teeth.

I want to make our house look nicer with simple stuff like this.

Spent the rest of the night playing Gin Rummy and drinking "a can of beer" (These days I feel damn full and cannot drink or eat properly. Dunnoe what's wrong with me).

Midnight came fast and we wished everyone and at about 12.30am we left for home.

Wait for part 2 (Day).